Jamatra: Usually when people come to eat or feed cashews, people usually start pocketing pockets. In such a case, if the price of cashew is less than potato-onion then you hardly believe. That is, if you buy 800kg of cashew nuts in Delhi, then 12 hundred kilometers from here, cashew is very cheap in Jharkhand. In Jamatra district cashew nuts sell 10 to 20 rupees per kg. There are about 49 acres area of cashew plantation in Jamtada's Nala. Children and women working in the garden sell cashews at very cheap prices. Due to the benefits of cashew crop, many people in the area are spreading this trend. These gardens are four kilometers away from Jamtara block headquarter.
Interesting story behind the plantation
The most interesting thing is that such a huge yield of cashew nut in Jamtada has started after a few years of hard work. People from the area say that Krupanand Jha, former Deputy Commissioner of Jamtada, liked the cashew nuts very much. For this reason, he wanted that if cashew plantation in Jamtada would be able to eat fresh and cheap cashew nuts.
For this reason, Kriyampand Jha met the people who used to cultivate cashew nuts in Odisha. They know the geographical situation of Jamtada from agricultural scientists. After this, the cashew plantation started here. In the last few years, cashew cultivation began to grow here on a large scale.
After leaving Kriopandh Jha here, Nimai Chandra Ghosh & Co. was entrusted with the responsibility of monitoring the plantation for three years on payment of only three lakh rupees. According to an estimate, thousands of quintals of cashew nuts per year in the plantation. In the absence of supervision, local people carry away cashew nuts and goats.
People in the horticulture of cashews, many times, made an appeal to the state government to protect the crop but did not pay special attention. Last year, the government had said that cashew plants were planted in 100 hectares of land in Nala area. All types of plantation preparation have been completed by the department. Under the National Horticulture Mission, the responsibility of planting cashew nuts was given to the District Agriculture Department, but so far the work has not started.
The Government has been promising to increase the cultivation of cashew nuts and bring them the right price to improve the condition of the farmers of the area.